Hitler Outlaws All Parties: Nazi Dictatorship Sealed
Hitler's regime passed the Law Against the Establishment of Parties on July 14, 1933, making the Nazi Party the only legal political organization in Germany. This came just five months after Hitler became chancellor. The Social Democrats had already been banned, the Communists arrested after the Reichstag fire, and the remaining parties pressured into dissolving themselves. The Catholic Centre Party, the last holdout, disbanded on July 5 after the Vatican signed a concordat with Berlin. With opposition parties eliminated, Hitler controlled the Reichstag entirely. Voting became a formality. The law turned Germany from a flawed democracy into a totalitarian state in under six months.
July 14, 1933
93 years ago
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